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“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.”
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“Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.”
― Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
― Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
“I was increasingly both horrified and sceptical about these memories - I had no recall of these things at all, though I couldn't imagine why I'd want to make it all up either. It felt as though it had all happened to somebody else, I was not there - it wasn't me - when those people did nasty things.
But then, of course, it didn't feel like me, that's the whole point of dissociation - to create distance between the victim and her experience of the abuse. The alters were created for just that purpose: so that I'd not be aware that it happened to me, but rather to "others". The trouble is, in reality it was my body that took the abuse. It was only my mind that was divided, and sooner or later the amnesic barriers were bound to come down.
And that's exactly what had begun to happen as I heard their stories. They triggered a vague and growing sense in me that this really is my story.”
― Am I a Good Girl Yet?: Childhood Abuse Had Shattered Her. Could She Ever Be Whole?
But then, of course, it didn't feel like me, that's the whole point of dissociation - to create distance between the victim and her experience of the abuse. The alters were created for just that purpose: so that I'd not be aware that it happened to me, but rather to "others". The trouble is, in reality it was my body that took the abuse. It was only my mind that was divided, and sooner or later the amnesic barriers were bound to come down.
And that's exactly what had begun to happen as I heard their stories. They triggered a vague and growing sense in me that this really is my story.”
― Am I a Good Girl Yet?: Childhood Abuse Had Shattered Her. Could She Ever Be Whole?

“If he doesn鈥檛 get here soon, I鈥檓 going to fall asleep, Susan grumbled.
He loved hearing her voice in his head even when she was cranky.
The thought made him smile. I鈥檝e been keeping you up too late.
Not really, she replied. I鈥檝e always been a night owl. I just haven鈥檛 been sleeping late the way I usually do.
And had had one scare after another whilst awake.
Did I mention I鈥檓 still sore from digging your handsome ass up?
He laughed.
It was totally worth it, of course, she went on.But if we find out you鈥檙e single, I might hit you up for a nice long massage.
He cursed when his body immediately responded to the image of her naked and laid out before him, waiting for him to run his hands all over her body. Now who鈥檚 flirting?
Ooh, she purred. That鈥檚 so cool. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you鈥檙e turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience.Damn it. Now I鈥檓 turned on.
He laughed, delighted that she inspired him to do so even in such grim circumstances.”
― Awaken the Darkness
He loved hearing her voice in his head even when she was cranky.
The thought made him smile. I鈥檝e been keeping you up too late.
Not really, she replied. I鈥檝e always been a night owl. I just haven鈥檛 been sleeping late the way I usually do.
And had had one scare after another whilst awake.
Did I mention I鈥檓 still sore from digging your handsome ass up?
He laughed.
It was totally worth it, of course, she went on.But if we find out you鈥檙e single, I might hit you up for a nice long massage.
He cursed when his body immediately responded to the image of her naked and laid out before him, waiting for him to run his hands all over her body. Now who鈥檚 flirting?
Ooh, she purred. That鈥檚 so cool. Even in your thoughts, your voice deepens and gets all growly when you鈥檙e turned on. Before he could respond, she made a sound of impatience.Damn it. Now I鈥檓 turned on.
He laughed, delighted that she inspired him to do so even in such grim circumstances.”
― Awaken the Darkness

“He found her utterly fascinating, a nameless, homeless, naked vampire, sleeping away the day in his bed, wanted by state and federal police.”
― The Nightlife San Antonio
― The Nightlife San Antonio

“Among DID individuals, the sharing of conscious awareness between alters exists in varying degrees. I have seen cases where there has appeared to be no amnestic barriers between individual alters, where the host and alters appeared to be fully cognizant of each other. On the other hand, I have seen cases where the host was absolutely unaware of any alters despite clear evidence of their presence. In those cases, while the host was not aware of the alters, there were alters with an awareness of the host as well as having some limited awareness of at least a few other alters. So, according to my experience, there is a spectrum of shared consciousness in DID patients. From a therapeutic point of view, while treatment of patients without amnestic barriers differs in some ways from treatment of those with such barriers, the fundamental goal of therapy is the same: to support the healing of the early childhood trauma that gave rise to the dissociation and its attendant alters.
Good DID therapy involves promoting co颅-consciousness. With co-颅consciousness, it is possible to begin teaching the patient鈥檚 system the value of cooperation among the alters. Enjoin them to emulate the spirit of a champion football team, with each member utilizing their full potential and working together to achieve a common goal.
Returning to the patients that seemed to lack amnestic barriers, it is important to understand that such co-consciousness did not mean that the host and alters were well-颅coordinated or living in harmony. If they were all in harmony, there would be no 鈥渄is颅ease.鈥� There would be little likelihood of a need or even desire for psychiatric intervention. It is when there is conflict between the host and/or among alters that treatment is needed.”
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Good DID therapy involves promoting co颅-consciousness. With co-颅consciousness, it is possible to begin teaching the patient鈥檚 system the value of cooperation among the alters. Enjoin them to emulate the spirit of a champion football team, with each member utilizing their full potential and working together to achieve a common goal.
Returning to the patients that seemed to lack amnestic barriers, it is important to understand that such co-consciousness did not mean that the host and alters were well-颅coordinated or living in harmony. If they were all in harmony, there would be no 鈥渄is颅ease.鈥� There would be little likelihood of a need or even desire for psychiatric intervention. It is when there is conflict between the host and/or among alters that treatment is needed.”
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“People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another?”
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“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people who are diagnosed with DID. Note that this is not an explicit diagnostic criterion, although such amnesia features strongly in the public view of DID, particularly in the form of the fugue-like conditions depicted in 铿乴ms of the condition, such as The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Typically, when one personality state, or 鈥榓lter鈥�, takes over from another, they have no idea what happened just before. They report having lost time, and often will have no idea where they are or how they got there. However, this is not a universal feature of DID. It happens that with certain individuals with DID, one personality state can retrieve what happened when another was in control. In other cases we have what is described as 鈥榗o-consciousness鈥� where one personality state can apparently monitor what is happening when another personality state is in control and, in certain circumstances, can take over the conversation.”
― Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves
― Trauma, Dissociation and Multiplicity: Working on Identity and Selves

“Telescope coordinates are 12 numbers long. After a couple of years working extreme night shifts on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, I could no longer remember the numbers that were read out to me by astronomers.”
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“Based on what I observed during my time in high altitude astronomy, mental illness was prevalent in the summit workers.”
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